Monday, September 22st 2014, 6:30 PM

Opening

Place du Luxembourg, Brussels

Tuesday, 23.09.2014, 08:30 AM

Networking Breakfast

EP ENVI & AGRI Committee

Presentation of the Wood Industries' Manifesto and the specific ENVI (Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) & AGRI (Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development) Working Papers.

Tuesday, 23.09.2014, 0:30 PM

Networking Lunch

EP ITRE Committee

Presentation of the Wood Industrie's Manifesto and the specific ITRE (Committee on Industry, Research and Energy) Paper.

Tuesday, 23.09.2014, 08:30 PM

Networking Dinner

Presentation of the "Club du Bois"

Wednesday, 24.09.2014, 10:30 AM

Seminar Research and Innovation Needs

The Potentials of Sustainable Building and Low Carbon Bio Economy

The seminar aims to inform policy makers on the European and regional level about the innovative developments and potentials of sustainable building in the low carbon bio economy.It will raise the awareness on an important European renewable resource that can boost local growth in rural and urban environments.

A very important aspect of the WOODBOX is the use of wood and timber as a contribution for climate protection. A single family house binds 60 tonnes of CO₂. If all building constructions were made of timber, half the amount of CO2 emissions produced by all cars in Austria per year could be avoided, says university professor Dr. Alfred Teischinger, Institut für Holzforschung (IHF, Institute for Wood Research), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna at the Wooddays on 3 September at the town hall in Klagenfurt.